German Town USA

The first weekend of my winter break Jarrod and I reserved a hotel room (That allowed dogs) and made our way to Fredericksberg Tx.  It's slightly south west of Austin and is the quintessential German town with many German restaurants, a brewery, and a lot of wine!  We had heard this was a fun place to wine taste and was also very festive at the holidays so we went west in search of something more festive than a palm tree covered half way up the trunk in lights...

The drive there was pretty good.  It was getting colder by the minute and was finally starting to feel like winter...On December 18th mind you.  The ride took about 3 hours and here you can see that Portland was the least amused with our driving time:

 I will say for 3 hours though he did pretty well.  He certainly was happier to see the Motel 8 we stayed at than we were and OH was he happy to see they had a King size bed he could run around on.  

The first night there we had a very German dinner with giant beers and meals who spellings I would butcher if I tried.  It was all super buttery and delicious and sent us to bed with full bellies and happy dreams of vineyards in the am.  Allow me to show you our full day in Fredericksberg via the pictures I did manage to grab:

This statue was outside of the Famous Hondo pub.  This place is all about local music and really, really good burgers!

German Town USA...

This is the German town that Fredericksberg is a "Sister" to.

 Happy visitor :)

O Tannanbaum 

 

The cat that ran the vineyards at Terre di Pietra

Imagine many...many grapes...mmmm

Tasting of the wines

We love wine tastings!

The rest of the day was filled with shopping, more wine tastings within walking distance (much appreciated) and a tasty dinner at the Brewery.  Forgot to pull my camera out the rest of the day, but here's a run down of what we brought home.  You can piece the day together from that :)

That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! bottles of wine folks! 

Signed by the wine maker himself!

This winery made custom labels... Thought this was a good photo choice :)

This was from a store called Red... AWESOME! We thought it was good for the bathroom ;)

Custom made for us with our wedding colors

Limited edition we found out... the box maker has stopped making these wine boxes

That we did... that we did!

This is made out of a stone... you put a candle in it and it glows. It was amazing all the things they had made out of this stuff.

Should be yellow, but all we had was the green tealights from the wedding... you get the idea though :)